- Can I use Zephr today without paying anything?
- Yes. Local mode is the shipped product: clone the repo, build from source, connect a client, and start capturing provenance-backed memories. There is no account, no card, and no egress.
- Why is there no price on this page?
- Because we have not earned one. Partner pricing is not evidenced, live capacity is not evidenced, and the infrastructure costs in the model are planning estimates rather than invoices. Publishing a number now would be a guess dressed as a commitment.
- Are trust and provenance features a paid upgrade?
- No, and they will not become one. Receipts, abstention, signature verification, and scope binding are in the free tier permanently. A trust layer that withholds trust behind a paywall is not a trust layer.
- What happens to my local data if I later move to the managed cloud?
- Nothing is taken away. Local mode keeps working with the network removed, and the evidence card, envelope, and signature formats are identical on both paths — the only thing that changes is where the file lives.
- How do I get into the managed beta?
- You cannot yet. The beta is invitation-only and opens after all four gates below have reviewed evidence at the same commit. If any gate is STOP or NOT EVALUATED, the decision is STOP.
- Will the planning numbers become the real numbers?
- Unknown, and we will not pretend otherwise. They exist to size the next evidence run. When the economics gates flip to GO, real pricing is published with the evidence that produced it.